Phoratopus

Phoratopus remex is a species of isopod crustaceans known from only two specimens, and first described in 1925 by Herbert Matthew Hale (1895–1963).[2] It lives on the continental shelf at Encounter Bay and Fowlers Bay, South Australia.[3][4] It is so unlike all other isopods that it is placed in its own family, Phoratopodidae and suborder, Phoratopidea.[5]

Phoratopus remex
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Isopoda
Suborder:
Phoratopidea

Brandt & Poore, 2003
Family:
Phoratopodidae

Hale, 1925
Genus:
Phoratopus

Hale, 1925
Species:
P. remex
Binomial name
Phoratopus remex
Hale, 1925 [1]

References
  1. "Phoratopus remex Hale, 1925". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
  2. Gary C. B. Poore & Helen M. Lew Ton (2002). "Phoratopodidae Hale, 1925". In W. W. K. Houston & Pamela L. Beesley (ed.). Zoological catalogue of Australia: Crustacea: Malocostraca: Syncarida, Peracarida, Isopoda, Tanaidacea, Mictacea, Thermosbaenacea, Spelaeogriphacea. Volume 19 of Zoological catalogue of Australia. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 192–193. ISBN 978-0-643-05677-0.
  3. "Species Phoratopus remex Hale, 1925". Australian Faunal Directory. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. 29 March 2010. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
  4. S. J. Keable, G. C. B. Poore & G. D. F. Wilson (2 October 2002). "Phoratopodidae Hale, 1925". Australian Isopoda: Families.
  5. Angelika Brandt & Gary C. B. Poore (2003). "Higher classification of the flabelliferan and related Isopoda based on a reappraisal of relationships". Invertebrate Systematics. 17 (6): 893–923. doi:10.1071/IS02032.


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